The init scripts don't seem to work, they will need a conversion to the init system used on gentoo. But ofcourse you could also load he tools manually each time.

Finally, you also need to make Firefox (or another browser) use the smartcard, again see the online guides. Both Evolution (but Thunderbird has) and Openoffice don't have support for PKCS#11 yet in linux, but this will probably change soon.

i can't entirely follow the current status of the thread, but i got it running on my 32bit system without any apparant troubles, took me a while before it saw wx_gtk but that's all solved now. so if there is any info you need let me know